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Annotation: The Multi-Organization Statewide Systems of Care Analysis Tool is designed to help entities and partners serving CYSHCN assess their system's structure and capacity. This includes organizations such as state Title V, Medicaid, CHIP programs, health plans, provider groups, and family organizations. The tool helps stakeholders evaluate how well their organization or system ensures access and quality care for CYSHCN by measuring their ability to implement the policies and processes outlined in the National Standards. Once completed, the results of the assessment can be shared with team members to ensure transparency and collaboration. The tool also prompts organizations to reflect on their policies, procedures, and capacity to meet the standards.

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Keywords: State CSHCN programs, Title V programs, Quality assessment, CSHN programs

Annotation: The Single-Organization Statewide Systems of Care Assessment Tool is designed to help individual organizations assess their capacity to provide quality care for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN). This tool is grounded in the National Standards for Systems of Care for CYSHCN, which outline the key components of a comprehensive system aimed at ensuring access to quality care. These standards are based on core outcomes established by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau and Health Resources and Services Administration, developed through extensive research and expert input. The tool is intended for members of a single organization, such as a state Medicaid office or a health plan. The goal is for each stakeholder group engaged in CYSHCN care to conduct this self-assessment. The results can then be shared with other organizations to collectively assess the broader system of care using the Multi-Organization Statewide Systems of Care Analysis Tool.

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Keywords: State CSHCN programs, Title V programs, Quality assessment, CSHN programs

Annotation: This publication presents brief summaries of some solutions developed by the Community Integrated Services System (CISS) Phase II grantees to address typical challenges to achieving integrated service systems at the community level. Part one discusses the Community Organization Grant (COG)grant sites and activities, and describes illustrative scenarios, building blocks, and the CISS approach. Part two contains project highlights in nine categories and includes service-delivery challenges and specific CISS solutions. The appendix contains a list of projects profiled by project title and location. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Community Integrated Service System program, Community based services, Community health services, Health care delivery, Local MCH programs, Service coordination

Annotation: This webcast, which was conducted on April 21, 2009, highlights the importance of how children uniquely benefit from the medical home, shares current efforts to implement the medical home across multiple stakeholder groups, and seeks to spur future collaborative efforts in support of the medical home. The webcast can be viewed in various formats, including video + slides + captioning, presentation slides, transcript (html or pdf), or audio only. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Multimedia, Child health, Collaboration, Medical home, Primary care, World wide web

Annotation: This report, made available for public comment, describes an analysis of the scientific literature on the effectiveness of newborn screening and gathers expert opinion to delineate the best evidence for screening specified conditions and develop recommendations focused on newborn screening, including the development of a uniform condition panel. The report is divided into several sections: the introduction; developing a uniform screening panel; and the newborn screening system: program evaluation, cost-effectiveness, information needs, and future needs. Report contents begin with a methods section providing the broad context for the newborn screening system and the overarching principles for developing newborn screening guidelines. Criteria used in the analyses of condition under consideration for newborn screening programs are described. Following is a description of the development and use of data collection tools to collect data that would complement evidence gathers from a review of the scientific literature, and also a description of the process for obtaining additional expert information and opinion. The results of these analyses are provided as well as recommendations for moving forward. References conclude the report. Statistical data are provided in figures throughout the report. Appendices include samples of (1) newborn screening fact sheet validation and fact sheets; (2) condition evaluation tool; (3) condition ACT(ion) sheets; (4) program standards; and (5) HIPPA guidance for public health programs. One box provides information about the Wilson-Junger criteria for appraising the validity of a screening program. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Federal MCH programs, Genetic screening, MCH research, Neonatal screening, Newborn infants, Standards, State programs

Annotation: This report describes a ten-year plan for injury prevention. It outlines a strategy for he Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) to provide national leadership in injury control. The plan briefly describes past and current MCHB and other organizations' activities in injury prevention. It goes on to identify the primary needs of the field including: 1) more attention given to problem definitions, 2) service system development; 3) research and evaluation, and 4) training. Implementation of prevention strategies is emphasized in this plan.

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Keywords: Comprehensive programs, Evaluation, Federal programs, Financing, Health professionals, Injury prevention, Needs assessment, Public health agencies, Public policy

Annotation: This report describes a meeting of nine states with active maternal mortality review (MMR) committees. Topics include challenges, lessons learned, and promising practices from MMR experiences in the following areas: structure and process, data and definitions, dissemination and implementation of findings, and development and sustainability.

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Keywords: Barriers, Florida, Information dissemination, Massachusetts, Maternal mortality, Michigan, New Jersey, Model programs, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Program development, State programs, Utah, Virginia

Annotation: This conference was held to continue the work on the problem of youth suicide that was started with the two previous Bi-Regional Adolescent Suicide Prevention Conferences in Snowbird and Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1994 and 1995. The proceedings of this third conference address the goals of the conference to strengthen and expand state and local efforts and to develop systems and state and national partnerships for adolescent suicide prevention. Objectives were to increase participants' knowledge regarding suicide prevention and intervention strategies, increase participants' knowledge of information and resources available to assist with state and local efforts, improve efforts in state data collection regarding adolescent suicide attempts, begin new efforts and strengthen ongoing efforts to improve dissemination of information about adolescent suicide, expand state teams for adolescent suicide prevention to include new partners and roles, and continue development and expansion of state adolescent suicide prevention action plans. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Adolescents, Conferences, Data collection, Information, Information dissemination, Intervention, State programs, Suicide, Suicide prevention

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Keywords: Genetics education

Annotation: This manual is a listing of codes for patient problems relating to nutrition. The codes are intended to help identify problems and describe health status, make summaries of problems and health status easier, and be used in patient care planning, care evaluation and review. Instructions for using the codes and case examples precede the listings.

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Keywords: Classification, Guidelines, Nutrition assessment, Nutrition disorders, Nutrition programs

Annotation: This report lists projects funded under the maternal and child health research grants program that were active or completed as of September 30, 1983.

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Keywords: Federal MCH programs, Grants, Research, SPRANS

Annotation: This report provides a brief overview of the health needs of southeast Asian refugees in maternal and child health and primary care programs. Characteristics of southeast Asian refugees and common health problems are listed. Problems in providing health and policy implications are also covered. An annotated listing of projects in various states with southeast Asian refugees follows the report.

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Keywords: Asian Americans, Programs, Refugees

Annotation: This information bulletin summarizes the papers and work group recommendations from a National Invitational Conference on the Health Futures of Adolescents. The goal of the conference was to establish a blueprint for services, research, and training so as to better meet the health needs of youth in the year 2000 and beyond by the identification of major health related concerns which face youth and the delineation of the present state of knowledge related to those major issues. Papers and work groups addressed topics such as the organization and financing of health services for youth, children and poverty, normal adolescent development, pubertal development, health promotion, and training and education.

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Keywords: Adolescent development, Adolescent health services, Health care financing, Health promotion, Poverty

Annotation: This booklet is intended to serve as a simple guide for parents who want to make sure their child has a good start in life. The Children's Bureau first published Infant Care in 1914. Since then, several hundred million copies have been distributed and it has been translated into several languages. Some editions have been printed in Spanish. The latest edition of this booklet is designed to present helpful suggestions for care during a baby's first year. The booklet's seven chapters cover preparations for the new baby, growth and development, health, injury prevention, first aid and emergencies, and suggestions for adapting to the changes that a new baby brings to family life. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau] Note: the 1989 copy is signed by Dr. Vince Hutchins.

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Keywords: Infant development, Infant health, Infants, Parenting, Spanish language materials

Annotation: This report presents the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Model Indicators (MI), which are to be used as a barometer of the health of mothers and children in the United States and as a guide to the content of MCH data sources in the future. The report consists of the introduction, MCH model indicators, the process of indicator development, and extensive references. Appendices include material dealing with views of MCHMI, descriptions of data sources for health status indicators, special issues regarding data on injuries, an article on rates based on small numbers, and model-based estimation. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Data sources, Health statistics, Health status, Injuries, Injury surveillance systems, MCH programs, Maternal and Child Health Model Indicators, Models, Statistical analysis

Annotation: This online video reflects on 25 years of the Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Program (MCHEP). It outlines the building of state, local, tribal, and territorial MCH data and research capacity to improve the health outcomes for women, infants, children, and families.

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Keywords: Audiovisual materials, Children, Families, History, Infants, MCH Epidemiology Program, Women

Annotation: These materials are from a series of workshops held in April and May 2006 in Missouri to provide hands-on tools for promoting resilience in children, families, and communities. Contents include presentation slides, the workshop agenda, presenter biographies, and exercise descriptions and handouts. Topics include the Comprehensive System Management Team; family engagement and family involvement; informed consent and issues of confidentiality; facilitated referrals and individualized care planning; Bright Futures and systems of care; using Bright Futures tools in practice; and next steps in implementing structures, processes, and leadership to serve the social and emotional needs of all children. A description of the workshop series is also available.

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Keywords: Bright Futures, Child health, Child mental health, Collaboration, Health care systems, Health supervision, Missouri, Resilience, State initiatives, Systems development

Annotation: These proceedings summarize certain portions of the Healthy Start Grantee Meeting held at the Hotel Washington in Washington, DC, November 16-19, 1994. Participants from 22 Healthy Start programs met to discuss ways to improve their programs and develop resources. These proceedings include an agenda and information from the pre-conference sessions on infant mortality review, local evaluation, public information and education efforts, developing collaboration and consortia, and the keynote address. Materials from the conference sessions on sustainability will be published in a separate volume, "The Healthy Start Initiative: A Community Driven Approach to Infant Mortality Reduction—Sustainability."

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Keywords: Conference proceedings, Federal grants, Health promotion, Healthy Start, Infant health services, Infant mortality, Maternal health services, Perinatal care, Sustainability

Annotation: This pamphlet describes recommendations on caring for infants in the Children's Bureau publication titled Infant Care (1935) and in Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children and Adolescents 2nd ed. (2008), showing how advice from the federal government has remained consistent over time or has changed. Topics include bath time, infant sleep, medical supervision, infant immunizations, preventing illness, injury prevention, breastfeeding, breast milk alternatives, introduction to solid foods, oral health, sun exposure, physical activity, traveling with baby, and role of fathers.

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Keywords: History, Infant health

Annotation: This fact sheet provides information about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children and adolescents. The fact sheet provides an overview of PTSD, describes the signs and symptoms, reviews what an adult can do to help a child or adolescent with PTSD, discusses treatment, and provides a list of resources including books, Internet resources, professional mental health associations and government agencies, and scientific citations. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Adolescents, Children, Mental health, Posttraumatic stress disorder, Resource materials, Treatment